Concentration of attention is the ability to focus on one particular subject or matter. At first it seems that this is quite simple, however, by doing at least one exercise for attention, you can be convinced of the opposite. For example, try to count to 50 without closing your eyes and think only about the score. It seems that it is so simple … But in reality, everything turns out to be completely different. Thoughts begin to get confused, and the person, although he continues to count, has long been thinking about something else. Only a few are able to concentrate on one subject or business and not be distracted. How can you develop this skill?
The easiest attention exercise
First of all, it will not be superfluous to find out if you are really an absent-minded person. Let's do this attention exercise: try to remember yesterday in detail. It is important to note the smallest moments of the day: with what mood did you wake up, who called or came in the morning, and what did you talk about, what thoughts did you visit all day. If you remember all these little things it will not be difficult for you -you have a great memory and good concentration
It is often difficult for people to remember all the details of the day because our attention is not focused on them. A young mother brews coffee for herself in the morning, but she doesn’t think about it at all. Her thoughts are occupied with many things: what to cook for breakfast, in which store to shop, how to surprise her husband in the evening.
One of the simplest exercises is the mindfulness exercise throughout the day. Try not to be distracted from what you are directly involved in. That is, if you make coffee, think only about it. Little things like that will teach you to focus your attention on specific things.
Exercises "Film Tape" and "Relaxation"
After you learn to concentrate on what you are doing at a certain time, it will not be superfluous to learn how to complete the tasks "Film Reel" and "Relaxation". These are very effective concentration exercises.
The essence of the first is to remember how you spent the day. In the evening, take a comfortable position and think about your pastime. If you have been good at paying attention to details throughout the day and thinking only about what you were doing at a particular time, this exercise will be easy for you.
Next, you can proceed to the second task.
Begin to mentally relax all parts of the body, from the feet to the head. Imagine that every cell in your body is not tense. Switch your attention to your right foot. Feel her and then imagine how sherelaxes. This should be done with all parts of the body. In addition to helping to improve concentration, these memory and attention exercises for adults are also great for relaxing the whole body.
Group exercises
You can train attention both alone and in a group. In a team, doing this is even easier and more interesting. Thus, the exercises turn into an exciting game. Invite your family to play it - and a great pastime is guaranteed. Such games are well suited for the development of attention in schoolchildren. Playful exercises will teach them to be more collected. You can also invite your children's friends to visit, then the classes will become even more exciting.
Collective exercise "Bee"
A group of people mentally imagines a playing field in the form of 9 cells with a bee in the middle. During the game, each participant mentally moves the insect one cell of the field (to the right, left, up or down) and says out loud where he moves it.
Each of the participants needs to control the movement of the bee mentally, this makes the task difficult. The one whose bee goes out of the field loses, and then the game starts all over again. In other words, each participant must mentally draw 9 game cells in front of them and listen carefully to where the insect moves.
Counting exercises
Such attention exercises for children and adults are very effective. They can be complicated or simplified depending onthe age of the child and his attention. For example, a task for a group of people: count from 1 to 100, and each voices only one number in order. Instead of numbers divisible by 5, you need to say: "I am attentive." For example: 1, 2, 3, 4, I am attentive, 6, 7, 8, 9, I am attentive, etc.
Color difference exercise
Very interesting and effective task. Name the color of each word. This is quite difficult to do, since these are not just words, but the names of colors. The brain perceives text first, and then only color. You need some skill to do the exercise correctly. Such concentration exercises give good results.
Spot the Difference Game
This game is familiar to all of us since childhood. It is not for nothing that children are so often offered to find differences in drawings, and they like to do this. These are excellent exercises for developing memory and attention. It is also very useful for adults to look for differences in the drawings. The main bias in such games goes to the development of memory. After all, looking at one drawing, the child tries to remember all the small details and find them on another, thus comparing the images.
Reading and memory
In order to learn how to concentrate, you should love reading. Often, without noticing it themselves, people quickly skim through the text and do not catch even half of its meaning. Surely, many have noticed that, after reading an article, they begin to look at it again. This is because the concentration of attention is very low, and at this timehuman thoughts are in a completely different area.
When reading any text, try to think about every word. In order to fully understand what is written, you need to make certain pauses after paragraphs and comprehend what you read above. If you follow all the instructions, then there will be no need to look at the same text several times.
Assignments and exercises to develop attention in children
Children tend to be very distracted, especially schoolchildren. They forget everything in the world: what mother said in the morning, where their clothes are, what exercises the teacher asked home and the like. Kids don't always do it on purpose. Many do suffer from forgetfulness.
School changes a child a lot, he has many responsibilities, as well as a lot of new and interesting things. In this turmoil it is very difficult to follow the course of one's thoughts, and the little creature is lost. It is important to monitor the development of attention in schoolchildren. Exercise can help teach him to be more collected and serious.
For example, exercises with drawings. It is necessary to take 4 cards on which various objects are depicted (for example: a table, a chair, a bed, a cup). Let the child look at them for half a minute and then remove them. Ask him to draw all the objects in order on a piece of paper. Based on the results of such a task, you can determine how good a child’s memory is. If he depicted all 4 objects correctly and in the same sequence, this is an excellent result. If 3-4 pictures are shown, butscatter is a good thing. If a student could not draw even 3 objects, then he is very distracted.
If the child did very well with such a task, it can be made more difficult - for example, you can add more cards to the work. There is another, more complex version of this task. Instead of images with objects, abstract drawings should be used. Such a task will be more difficult, since drawing something that the child has never seen before is much more difficult.
Here is another very interesting attention exercise for kids. For example, any text is taken and the child is invited to read it for a minute and cross out 3 letters: “a”, “r” and “n”. Having counted the number of missing letters that should have been crossed out and the number of words in the text that he managed to work out, the degree of attention of the child is assessed. Results can be recorded and compared each time.
There are also special random letter sets in which certain characters must be crossed out. After the work done, from the remaining ones it will be possible to read a statement or a rhyme.
Concentration of attention in everyday life
In everyday life it is very easy to train memory. You just need to pay attention to small details and everyday situations. Start noticing new details in things that are familiar to you, and this will be a great attention training. Exercise, of course, also gives its effect, but you need to spend at least 10 minutes a day on them.
For example, when you go to a store that you frequent, pay attention todifferent details along the way: which road is under your feet, which trees grow, how many more shops are nearby, which houses are near the road. When you get home, try to remember all these items. Close your eyes and mentally go shopping again. You won't be able to remember all the details right away, but over time it will get better and better every time.
Why train memory and attention
In our life, many things are connected with the concentration of attention. We do everything “on the machine” and then we hardly remember many of the nuances. Surely you at least once ran out of the house in a hurry and thought about whether you turned off the iron, whether you closed the front doors, and whether you forgot anything. This is because at the time when a person, for example, turns off the iron from the socket, he is thinking about absolutely other things. He does not pay attention to the iron, and then, accordingly, cannot remember if he performed this action.
Good memory and attention will be useful in the work area. During hard work, people very often forget about something and lose something. Being distracted can even lead to losing your job. In almost any business, calmness and a fresh mind are important. For a good memory, we develop attention, concentration exercises improve focus on a specific action.
Before an important meeting or presentation, try breathing exercises. As you begin to breathe deeply, focus on your breath. Feel the air being drawn into your lungs. Try no morethan not to think. As you exhale, count to 5 and take another deep breath. This exercise can be performed for 5-10 minutes. It will help to cheer up a little and put your thoughts in order. For the brain, this will be a great rest.
There are times when increased concentration can save lives and prevent accidents. For example, the driver behind the wheel must be very careful, otherwise an accident may occur. An attentive passer-by can also avoid a collision if he notices the approaching transport in time. So it turns out that in any situation you need to be attentive and focused.
